Charité

As doctors and medical personnel leave the GDR for West Berlin, Dr. Ella Wendt is transferred to Charite. Despite the hardships in the East, Ella is excited by the chance to work with the renowned serologist and pathologist Otto Prokop.

Ella takes advantage of her department’s lack of supervision to further her cancer research. Dr. Prokop considers why a corpse shows signs of human bite marks. An infant is endangered by the distance between Pediatrics and Gynecology.

In cloak-and-dagger style, the provisional Wall is erected thus turning the Charite into border territory. The hospital’s staff react in differing ways, but they must continue to provide care. Prokop returns from Vienna with troubling news.

The body of the first person killed on the Wall is discovered; Ella is terrified that it is Curt. Dr. Nowack and Ella disagree on a diagnosis, and what Prokop finds during the autopsy has political repercussions. Ella is reinspired.

Dr. Nowack is named the new head of internal medicine, thanks to his silence in the case of the Wismut patient. Ella withdraws and tries to concentrate on her research. Two patients need a single ration of Penicillin.

Ella is scheduled to attend a research congress in West Berlin, but Nowack must vouch for her. Both know it might cost him his job should Ella not return. Kraatz and Rapoport discuss plans for a shared women’s and children’s ward.